You Need to Know:SmokeLong publishes flash fiction
up to 1000 words. We do not consider poetry or non-fiction.

Please send ONE
previously unpublished story at a time, and wait until you hear from us to send
another.

Include a print-ready, third-person bio with your cover
letter.

When we have guest editors they read blind, so please do not
include your name or other identifying information anywhere on the story
document itself.

We do not provide monetary payment, but we have undying
devotion to all the writers we publish.

Online Rights: If we publish your work, we require exclusive electronic rights
to it for 3 months and non-exclusive rights indefinitely so we can include it
in our online archives.
Print Rights: We require non-exclusive print rights, for potential annual
anthologies and promotional materials. All other rights remain yours.

More Stuff You Might Want to Know Before
Submitting:

The SLQ aesthetic remains an ever-changing, ever-elusive set of principles, but
it most likely has to do with these kinds of things:

* language that surprises
* narratives that strive toward something other than a final punch line or
twist
* pieces that add up to something, oftentimes (but not necessarily always)
meaning or emotional resonance
* honest work that feels as if it has far more purpose than a writer wanting to
write a story

We publish one story each week as SmokeLong Weekly, chosen by guest editors. We
also publish spring, summer, fall and winter quarterly issues. The quarterly
issue includes the weekly stories as well as bonus stories and interviews.

Even though our weekly stories are chosen by different editors, you may NOT
submit the same story with each new week. Our staff does manage the submission
process, and we will -- unfortunately -- have to disqualify these stories from
consideration.

Our intent is to respond as quickly as possible. Please allow us up to four
weeks to inform you if we have accepted your work for publication. You will
usually hear from us much sooner. (Note: Our emails sometimes get caught by
spam filters, so please add "smokelong.com" to your allow list. We
also can't respond to any third-party spam filter programs, so please don't
submit to us with an email address that has that kind of security set up.)

Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please inform us immediately if your
work has been accepted somewhere else for publication.

This category is for flash fiction and art for children under the age of 12. A parent or guardian must submit the child's work with permission for us to publish it.

Guidelines

Stories, art or a combination
of such must have been conceived of and written by someone under the age
of 12. However, we ask that an adult over the age of 18 please
submit this work to us with permission to publish it online.

If
the piece is a story, whenever possible we would like to see a
photograph of the writing itself (scrawls, misspellings, colors and
all). Where necessary, the parent or guardian can also provide a
"translation" for us!

SmokeLong publishes essays on flash
fiction on our blog. Essays will be considered for the “Why Flash Fiction?”
and "Flash, Back" series, but we will also consider craft essays and flash fiction collection
reviews.

The “Why Flash
Fiction?” series explores what draws flash fiction writers and editors to the
form. Send us your essays about the first time you wrote a piece of flash, why
flash resonates with you, your favorite piece from another writer, your
experience writing a particular published flash piece, or any other topic that
broadly answers the question, "Why do you write flash?" We normally do
not publish essays that exceed 2500 words. Read our past essays on flash (which
can be found on the blog!) to
get a better idea of what we’re looking for.

SmokeLong‘s “Flash, Back” series asks writers to discuss flash
fiction that may be obscure or printed before the term “flash fiction”
became popular, and tell us how these older or not-widely-known works
are meaningful.

Submit pitches for essays or a
completed draft. If a pitch is accepted, we request that you submit the full,
polished essay within six weeks of acceptance.

Book Reviews

SmokeLong is interested in reviewing flash fiction collections
from emerging writers, famous authors, independent presses, big publishing
houses, and everything in between. Authors and publicists are welcome to submit
queries and/or books for consideration through our Submittable portal. If you are a reviewer,
please submit a completed review or query letter detailing your interests and
qualifications as a flash fiction reviewer.

This category is for previous contributors only. Please submit no more than two news items each period, including newly published works,
achievements, and awards. Entries should be recent (please include a date). Info regarding such
should be no longer than 100 words including title of new work (flash,
short story, essay, poem, memoir,or novel) and name of
publisher (ezine, print zine, publishing house) plus link to said work and/or how to purchase). Please also include all links and Issue # to your published work at SmokeLong Quarterly.

Submit information in the cover letter box. There is no need to upload a document.

Submissions will be reviewed by staff for appropriateness and accuracy. Submissions or notices that do not meet our guidelines or criteria will not be included.

Please note that SLQ does NOT accept general art submissions. This category is only for solicited pieces from artists we regularly work with. If you are an artist working with us on a specific story, you can upload it here. Unsolicited art will not be considered or responded to here.

If you are interested in contributing art to future issues of SmokeLong, please contact Ashley Inguanta at ashleyinguanta@gmail.com with your bio and link to any web sites, etc. (Please do not send attachments unless they are solicited.)